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Farmers to get Anzac bickies as drought bites

About 8,000 Anzac biscuits have been packaged, as a campaign to support drought-affected farmers continues.

The Baked Relief organisation worked over the past week to coordinate more people in south-east Queensland to cook biscuits, to send to families in western Queensland and in the South Burnett.

Georgie Somerset from the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women's Network (QRRRWN) says the response has shown city people want to help.

"If people can imagine a packing case, there are about 43 of those that will be heading out into farms over the next week or two and arriving in mailboxes, and will still be fresh and beautiful with a cup of tea," she said.

"I think there is enormous kindness out there and what it requires is a vehicle.

"Baked Relief and QRRRWN provide the vehicle, that people can actually show that they care.

"The estimation is that over 8,000 Anzacs got packed up into parcels and they will come beautifully wrapped with a note from those families.

"There are still a lot of people who haven't had enough rain to put pay to the drought and we are heading into winter.

"So we have got Anzacs heading into south-west Queensland, the South Burnett and we are also in the process of organising for some to go out into western Queensland again."